Sports

.

Forty-eight players from the 16 non-Chillicothe high school basketball teams from the C-T coverage area have been chosen to all-district teams selected by either members of the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters (MSSA) or Missouri Basketball Coaches associations (MBCA).

Although out-numbered by postponements, Chillicothe High School’s spring sports season did get a few events completed last week – the baseball Hornets’ 10-0 5-innings loss of their debut at Lawson on a rare sunny day March 20, the home track-and-field meet that got pushed back a day to last Wednesday by the weather (see detailed story and photos on page B1), and the soccer Lady Hornets’ two matches in last Saturday’s Chris Hotop Invitational tournament at Mexico. On the opposite side of last week’s schedule balance sheet, though, were baseball, boys’ golf, and boys’ tennis postponements on March 21 and baseball against Trenton last Thursday, in addition to the 1-day track meet delay.

with Wehrle The Missouri Department of Conservation has set several of the 2023 fall hunting seasons and most of them are pretty much the same as last year’s. Black bear and elk seasons have a limited number of permits available and these can be applied for in May.

With a day’s postponement, due to cold and rain, cutting the number of visiting schools participating in half from four to two, Chillicothe High School’s 2023 trackand- field competition commenced at Jerry Litton Memorial Stadium II a week ago with the hosting of the annual open “time trials” meet. CHS girls and boys were joined by others from smaller schools Hamilton: Penney and Princeton for the no-scoring, unlimited- entries meet in overcast, but reasonably mild, weather.

The last page of the 2022-23 Chillicothe High School basketball Hornets’ story was turned early last week with the announcement of postseason recognition for a pair of team members. Senior guard Griff Bonderer was among the Midland Empire Conference players voted by coaches to the all-conference first team and was joined on the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s 10-members Class 4 all-District 16 team by junior center James Mathew, it was announced following the conclusion of the season for all MEC and Classes 4-6 teams.

Six outstanding Class 1 or Class 2 high school basketball players from the C-T coverage area have been accorded All-State status for the 2022-23 season by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association, the organization announced at mid-week last week. Of the half-dozen, only one is a senior this school year – Hayden Harms of Mendon: Northwestern.

NEW ORLEANS — Jesse Miller, the former Chillicothe High School track-and-field Hornets 2-times state high jump champion now coaching at Pittsburg (Kan.) State University, has been named the NCAA Division II men’s trackand- field national “Assistant Coach of the Year” for the 2023 indoors season by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

With three of the six teams having new head coaches in place, Chillicothe High School’s 2023 spring sports season finally got off to a weather-induced belated start yesterday. Action was to have begun late last week with the soccer Lady Hornets hosting what would have been their inaugural invitational tournament and baseball making a trip to Savannah, but Mother Nature nixed those plans, pushing all six teams’ starts back to this week, when the weather looks likely to be generally more cooperative.